Boot Camp 3 & The Computer Meltdown

So first I have to apologize for this being so late.  Wednesday night when I came home from work, I turned on my computer to check facebook before Kitty came to pick me up for boot camp, and my ad-aware virus protection alerted me that it was blocking something that had infected my computer.  I wasn’t exactly sure how it had happened because I didn’t have a problem the night before, and I had literally just turned it on and opened firefox.   Well I opened up Malware Bytes Anti Malware (an excellent free anti-virus software that you can get here) and started an update.  I also ran Rkill.exe (I don’t know how it works, so don’t ask me, but if a virus is running on your computer, it was tell it to shut up until you either reboot, or remove it.  Can get that here) just to stop anything that would try to shut down my anti-virus program.  So I ran a quick scan and came up with about 7 infected files.   “Jinkees!” I exclaimed, and clicked the button to remove them.  That’s when all hell broke lose.  Ad-aware blinked with about twenty messages naming various things that it was blocking and I knew I had a major problem, but I had to go to boot camp, so it had to wait.

When I came home I couldn’t even use the computer because the virus had started taking over, so I had to remove the harddrive, put it in another computer and run a scan through that.  Three scans later with three different anti-virus programs, and it was ready to go back into the original computer.  I don’t even know how many scans I did back in it’s original computer, but after finding over 2k infected objects, the scans are finally coming up clean.  But I think the damage is done and I might have to reinstall on this computer.  I tried to run a final scan in safe mode, but something’s wrong and pressing F8 at restart does not bring me to the screen with the option of starting in safe mode.  I need to consult my computer guy and find out if it’s even worth trying to do a windows repair, or if I just need to back up and reinstall.  Luckily I have a laptop and another whole computer that I use for storage and repairage (yeah, so what if I made that word up) of other computers. 

Anyway, enough nerding it up with myself, on to the bootcamp!

Wednesday night we started with a dynamic warmup, per usual.  All the fun jumping that you know I love.  Today he split us up into two people per station.  Coop said goodbye to Kitty because he knew I would be stealing her again.  There were six stations of exercises and we did 4 continuous rounds this time.  There were a few new people to the class and a few regulars, and most of the population….well no.  Let’s face it, it was this group of whiny women who were bitching about no break in between.  Well…why the fuck did you come if you don’t want to work out?  You should have just stayed home and ate bon-bons you lazy son’s of bitches.  And I have never seen a more disgusting plank in my life, and it was the skinniest girl who was so bad at it!  Honey, your ass should not be that far up in the air, if you can not plank for 40 seconds, then take a break half way, but that doesn’t mean DO IT WRONG!  Anyway, that brings me to the next bit of information.  Again, it was interval training and we were on for 40 seconds and had twenty seconds to “rest” and move to the next station.

• So the first station Kitty and I did was elbow planks on a physio ball.  I did the first two rounds on the ball, then did the second two on the floor in a regular plank.

•  Second station was a one armed row and twist using the “TRX” rope/handle thingys that hang from the scaffolding.  From now on, I’ll only call them “TRX” and you’ll have to remember what they’re called, now that I figured out what they are. When we rowed in, we faced forward, but when we rowed out we twisted to the opposite side. 

          

• Third station was a squat into a shoulder press using 15 pound weights. I was very surprised that I didn’t whine about the weight, because when I was doing PT55, I was only using 5-7 pounders on shoulder work.  I mean granted, we were doing a move for three minutes instead of 40 seconds, but still.  I impressed myself.  Darren (the owner) even noticed my “serious” face when I was doing them!

• Fourth station involved those big heavy ropes that you see super intense people waving up and down at those crazy gyms.  Kitty and I kneeled at either ends of the rope and had to wave it back and forth at each other. A couple times she almost pulled me off my knee pad!

• Fifth station was a version of jumping jacks called “Seal Jacks”.  Instead of putting your arms over your head, you clapped them out in front of you. I felt like a super goob while I was doing them, but the music was really good this week (some Lady Gaga! ) so I had more energy to give a lot more of myself this week.  Wait…did I just imply that I enjoyed jumping?  Pfft..no, that wasn’t me that said that.

• The sixth and final station was a dead lift into a bent over row using a pair of 1 5 pound kettle bells.  Again, I don’t know how I did so well with 15 pounds.

The ending ritual this time wasn’t any sort of “countdown” like before.  We did about 8 (I say about because I really wasn’t paying attention at this point) rounds of 30 second on, 10 second on, alternating negative push-ups and mountain climbers.  A negative push up is apparently something that is supposed to teach you or train you to be able to do a full push up.  You start out in the upright push up position. You lower yourself until you are completely on the ground, then you drop your knees, push your self up and start the whole process again. 

I’m really starting to like this boot camp class, and am really going to miss it in two sessions when our passes run out.  But I honestly don’t feel like paying for something that I can and should do at home. I still need to cancel my gym membership, but I’ve been putting it off and I don’t know why.  It would make sense to cancel because it would save me 40 bucks a month and the gas money it takes to get out to Medford and back, but something keeps holding me back.  It’s ridiculous though, because I haven’t been there since the very beginning of the month when I realized that this months class sucked.  But I almost wanted to go today because I feel like I could tackle it now, but I didn’t and I kind of regret it.

Last night we didn’t make it to Zumba either, because the power went out on the base, and Kitty and Coop had a surprise inspection from the commander right as they were supposed to leave.  I drove all the way out there thinking it was business as usual, then when I didn’t hear from her I drove home and weeped because my week had been so shit and that was my only light at the end.  But as soon as I got home I got a call from Kitty explaining the situation.  I knew she wouldn’t just completely ignore me without a good reason, but it was still enough to bum me out.

Tonight I’m making the boyfriend do bodyrock with me because we both need it, and we’re going to the beach tomorrow!   I plan on making him suffer through the “Hot to Trot” workout, because I want to do it at least once a week until I can stay in a plank for the entire 4 minutes.  At least for the first round.

That’s enough rambling, I have a computer to sob about.